[uf-discuss] [ANN:] Hypertext Friend of a Friend (hFoaF)

[André Luís]

I just tried on my own blog, without any changes to the current markup:

http://xml.mfd-consult.dk/foaf/explorer/?foaf=http%3A%2F%2Fweborganics.co.uk%2FhFoaF%2F%3Fid%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fandr3.net%2Fblog

It worked pretty well!!
(I'm using xFolk to mark up the blog entries, but I'm considering
changing to hAtom.)

Just trying to contribute with an "example in the wild".

I like the idea... basically you're just suggesting a way of putting
hcard+xfn+(hatom/xfolk) together in a simple way. Having a specific
format to aim for (and to call it) will surely help convergence in
implementations.

Looking forward to see what other fine folks have to say.

Great work Martin.
--
André Luís


On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Martin McEvoy <info at weborganics.co.uk> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am Pleased to announce Hypertext Friend of a Friend or hFoaF.
>
> hFoaF came to be because I noticed a patten of people trying to
> consolidate their identity's, express interests, and friends in their
> user profiles and homepages using hcard[1] and a url with the XFN[2]
> rel="me", marking up their friends and colleagues with simple anchor
> text links and other XFN values, and expressing their interests by using
> either xFolk[3] or hAtom[4].
> How common is this pattern, well to be honest not many every user
> profile at Ma.Gnolia[5] is marked up in this way, and Tantek's
> homepage[6] is also marked up in this way. others are, Lasfm, twitter,
> and nsyght Profiles but the markup (for me) is so difficult to tidy and
> parse that with the exception of nsyght it is difficult extract anything
> useful :(
>
> examples:
>
> Using the transformer available at, http://weborganics.co.uk/hFoaf/?id=
>
> source: http://www.tantek.com/
> output: http://tinyurl.com/3g4dv5
>
> source: http://ma.gnolia.com/people/aarongustafson
> output: http://tinyurl.com/3eqzya
>
> Using GRDDL available at, http://www.w3.org/2007/08/grddl/?docAddr=
>
> profile: http://weborganics.co.uk/Profiles/hFoaF.xsl
> source: http://weborganics.co.uk/
> output: http://tinyurl.com/3ucx9z
>
> If you are interested in the source code or would like to know a little
> more please visit http://weborganics.co.uk/hFoaf/
>
> As usual comments constructive criticism welcome.
> Thanks.
>
> [1] http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard
> [2] http://microformats.org/wiki/xfn
> [3] http://microformats.org/wiki/xfolk
> [4] http://microformats.org/wiki/hatom
> [5] http://ma.gnolia.com/
> [6] http://www.tantek.com/
>
> Martin McEvoy
> http://weborganics.co.uk/
>
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